ProjectManager.com
APRIL 28, 2020
Project management is made up of processes. Project managers and their teams depend on those processes to ensure that a project runs smoothly. But what about those processes? Are they chiseled in stone or can they be improved? Too often processes are relied on as if they were somehow perfect and cannot be touched. That type of thinking is what will quickly send a project off track and possibly cause it to fail.
Project Bliss
APRIL 29, 2020
You may be surprised at all the ways empathy can be your secret superpower in the workplace. I’ve worked with many project managers and leaders throughout my career. They’ve had different personalities and different leadership traits. I’ve work with those who were admired and loved. And I’ve worked with some who were self-absorbed jerks.
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The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 28, 2020
The post A Project Manager’s Guide To Work Breakdown Structure appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Proofhub
APRIL 28, 2020
With many businesses forced to cease in-person communication and go fully remote with their work, it can be a difficult transition for companies to make. While many may hope to have their workdays continue, as usual, companies should take a moment to acknowledge these changes and focus on the way to connect with their employees during these challenging times.
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Musings on Project Management
APRIL 30, 2020
Well, here in the Spring of 2020, leaders are stressed; and circumstances are somewhat chaotic (meaning not only disorganized and counterproductive, but small effects are highly leveraged by exponential responses) And so one wonders: are our best leaders in crises and chaos likely to have been trained in the military where the 'fog of war' is all too real?
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Scrum.org
APRIL 27, 2020
TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives and Sprint Plannings based on Liberating Structures. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 26, 2020
What is Modern Requirements4DevOps? Read on to discover how Modern Requirements4DevOps works—what problems it can. The post What Is Modern Requirements4DevOps? Detailed Overview & Explanation Of Requirements Management Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Kiron Bondale
APRIL 26, 2020
(Many thanks to Scott W. Ambler for his tweet which inspired this article: “ The experiment failed successfully! “). One of the many traits associated with business agility is the frequent running of experiments. Experimentation might be related to assessing the market viability of a new business offering, determining if a proposed solution will overcome a technical uncertainty or understanding whether a specific practice such as pair programming can improve delivery outcomes.
MPUG
APRIL 27, 2020
Imagine putting a fifty-piece puzzle together that depicts an overview of a typical project. Each puzzle piece is like an artifact or one of the tangible by-products developed during the timeline of a project. The center piece is the project plan, and other pieces that could snap into the center piece may be the project’s charter, a communications plan, and/or a staffing management plan.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend
Scrum.org
APRIL 27, 2020
10' reading time . TL; DR. Sometimes, some actions seem good in the short term, but in reality mask serious dysfunctions. Working overtime in stressful situations is not a viable long-term remedy and should not be seen as a professional solution, but as a warning signal to be heard courageously. CONTEXT. It's Thursday night, the night before the end of the Sprint.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 1, 2020
This content is exclusive to DPM Pro Members! DPM Pro Members get: Instant access to. The post Workshop: Master Sprint Planning appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
TrustRadius Project Management
MAY 1, 2020
Since more people are working from home now than ever before, online communication tools have become the most popular software on the TrustRadius platform. In just the first few months of 2020, we’ve seen a 445% increase in impressions across the entire web conferencing category: Skype was one of the first online video calling and chat apps on the market.
Leading Answers
MAY 1, 2020
Gray areas occupy the transition from one world to the next. Neither black nor white, predictive nor agile, project managers are increasingly finding themselves in the gray area of hybrid project management. This can make us feel uncomfortable since we are neither faithfully following either approach—instead living a compromise between seemingly different value systems.
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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
Scrum.org
APRIL 28, 2020
A number of weeks ago I was chatting to Jeff Gothelf the co-author of Lean-UX and co-creator of our Professional Scrum with User Experience class. He described a project that he is working on which sparked my interest and is something I believe to be relevant to our Scrum community. I wanted to share some of this discussion with you. Dave: Jeff, you are working on a new book project called ‘Forever Employable’.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 27, 2020
The post How To Create Agility In Projects (With Dimitar Karaivanov) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Gunther Verheyen
MAY 1, 2020
I am excited to share that my new book “97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know” is now available for (pre-)ordering. Depending on the region (and regional measures for the Covid-19 pandemic), the digital and the printed version are either available or will become available soon. Following are a few channels you might want to check out: Barnes & Noble , Amazon.com , Amazon UK , Amazon Netherlands , Amazon Germany , Amazon France , Amazon India , Google Books , Bol.com.
Planio
APRIL 30, 2020
It’s safe to say that most teams live and die by their ability to work together. As The Economist writes: “In modern business, collaboration is next to godliness.”. Whether you’re collaborating on a website redesign , working on a video presentation to share with a project stakeholder , or updating your go-to-market strategy , your team needs the right tools to do their best work.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Scrum.org
APRIL 28, 2020
A few weeks ago, I had a wonderful conversation with Diana Larsen on Agile FM , and it did not come as a surprise, that the topic of retrospectives came up. Diana is the co-author of the book Agile Retrospectives , which has been very influential in many agile careers, including mine. . Of course there were other useful books out there about retrospectives and post-mortem's in general, but Agile Retrospectives was the first of its kind that tackled this topic towards agile teams.I especially li
ProProfs Project Management
MAY 1, 2020
Do you want to emerge triumphant in the business world? Of course you do! . Well, you would need to manage your projects in a manner that you delight your clients and build a strong image for your brand. . Explore this blog to know what’s project integration management and how it can revolutionize the way you manage projects. . A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. — Scott Allen.
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 28, 2020
We’re thrilled to announce that LiquidPlanner, the only automated scheduling and forecasting solution on the market, has been recognized as a leader in G2 Crowd’s 2020 Grid Report for both the Project Management and Resource Management categories. G2, the world’s largest tech marketplace, uses crowdsourced wisdom in the form of peer reviews, social data and more to identify true leaders in a variety of software and service segments.
Henny Portman
APRIL 28, 2020
Rethinking agile – Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility written by Klaus Leopold is great book to cope with agile transformations and what you have to do to increase the chance of success. It definitely busted the myth that having agile teams makes you agile. The book is divided into four parts: the problem, the causes, the first solution, and the result.
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This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.
Scrum.org
APRIL 25, 2020
Tu organización quiere ser ágil. Lo entiendo. Pero cada vez que un líder empresarial me dice que quiere ser “ágil”, mi primera pregunta es: “¿Por qué? ¿Qué significa eso para usted? ¿Y cómo sabrá si está progresando ? “¿Hacer agilidad o ser ágil? Las transformaciones ágiles reales son difíciles … realmente difíciles. Requieren fortaleza organizativa, opciones difíciles de priorización y confianza institucionalizada.
ProProfs Project Management
APRIL 29, 2020
There are days when you are beaming with creativity. It feels as if there is an overflow of ideas, and you’d like to share or implement them all. What’s more, you don’t feel like stopping at all. But when it comes to putting all the loose ends together, realization strikes – you feel lost. This is exactly what happens when you embark on an adventure without preparation.
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
APRIL 28, 2020
More and more adults probably feel like children in a complex business world that doesn’t look like anything we’ve seen before. Like children, we try to make sense of the surrounding world and the best way to do this is with a sense of curiosity. This curiosity is what allows us to gather information, try new things, and adapt our execution based on the situation.
Online PM Courses
APRIL 26, 2020
The Stage Gate Process has the potential to transform your project management, deliver more successful projects, and make you a better project manager. The post How the Stage Gate Process Will Make You a Better Project Manager appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
70% of most digital transformation projects fail. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.
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